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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
described the rating as “a knockout blow” and vowed that his administration would fight for its constituents and would turn the city around. Declared Laffey, who teaches a college finance course and is a... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
not be in the position of launching Restorsea if I hadn’t gone to HBS.” On October 15, Restorsea launched at Bergdorf Goodman department stores, with the goal, Pao says, of moving from the “lab,” where the store’s newest brands are sold, to a dedicated counter space.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
by a punishing cycle of overwork, whether studying for college entrance exams or following the “996” norm of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. “I will slack off at work I am a blunt sword to boycott consumerism,” declared a... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
George School, and Buckingham Friends School. At HBS, they have been regular reunion attendees, and Jones has served as a class fundraising leader during both reunion and non-reunion years, recently chairing their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign. Garrett earned an AB in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
and has contributed chapters to several books. Two articles he coauthored on real-estate finance won the Shattuck Award for the best article on real estate in 1967 and 1972. Hayes's MBA teaching assignments have included the electives... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin relied heavily on financial aid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Now in its 31st year, the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) offers rising college seniors who are typically underrepresented in the business school classroom the opportunity to live the MBA experience for one week each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
just a week on the job, floundered for answers, but Upromise, an online college savings vehicle, received funding anyway. The author recommends you shop for VCs like shopping for a car, looking for a style, brand, and model you are... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
purchasing the site that would become Xing Wei College in 2005 (it opened in 2012). “Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. “We want to introduce different ways of thinking.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
productivity, Professor Mihir Desai addressed a Senate finance committee in July 2014 and again in March 2015, offering lawmakers an action plan. “This combination of reforms has the potential of addressing significant changes in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
writing finance cases, Brierley also volunteered to help his college fraternity find a vendor to automate its 150,000 membership records. Failing to find a specialist in the membership record-keeping arena,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
eventually arrested and served a brief jail stint followed by rehab. Without a high school diploma, his future seemed bleak, but he willed himself through a GED program and community college before getting his View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
building projects, a 200 percent increase in financial aid, and meaningful progress on diversity. “Some of our kids have been first-generation high school students who go on to be first-generation college students,” he says. “Working with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Raymond James Financial, Controller... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
date, about 150 HBS alumni mentors have helped more than 1,500 mentees develop skills like networking, entrepreneurial thinking and defining personal success. For six months of their penultimate college year, cohorts of six students meet... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
served nearly six years as chairman and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). And then there are the nearly 25 years he spent teaching finance at HBS. If anyone could give the long view on what was happening on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
When the late James F. Rothenberg (AB 1968, MBA 1970) arrived at HBS, the recently graduated Harvard College English major had to learn the intricacies of accounting as well as the language of business. These skills served him well during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves, presents a lively and engaging guide to ethics in a technological age. Not the Seasons I Expected: A Fan's Memoir by Blant Hurt (MBA 1991) Fairbourne Publishing When it comes to college... View Details